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Social Media Boot Camp

Courtney Wendel-Stevenson | @Courtney_Wendel

Kevin Agee | @Kevin_Agee

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Overview

• Tips for all platforms

• Facebook 201

• Twitter 201

• Visual platforms

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Tips for all platforms

• Be authentic and infuse personality into your posts

• Post frequently and consistently

• Write like a journalist: Master the headline and lead• Inverted pyramid style

• Tweet: 140 characters

• Ideal Facebook post: Less than 40 characters

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Tips for all platforms

• Regularly use photos

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Tips for all platforms

• Use hashtags on Twitter,

Instagram and Facebook

• #GoMaroon

• #MSUBears

• #CitizenBear

• #FollowYourPassion

• #FindYourPlace

• #BearGrads

• #BearsHomecoming

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Tips for all platforms

• Tag relevant people,

places and locations

when possible

• Provides more information

to the user

• Gives credit to the content

source

• Increases the possibility of

a retweet or share,

boosting your visibility

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Tips for all platforms

• Whenever possible,

provide a link for more

information

• Gives them a direct line to

learn more about you and

your content

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Social media is your telephone,

not your megaphone

• Social media platforms allow for two-way conversation

• Ask your followers to comment or respond

• Set the tone, don’t control the conversation

• Listen, listen and listen again

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Become a Facebook

Rock Star

Courtney Wendel-Stevenson | @Courtney_Wendel

Office of Web and New Media | Missouri State University

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Overview

• Best practices for Facebook pages

• Promoting your activities with Facebook events

• Understanding Facebook’s algorithm

• Measuring your success

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FACEBOOK PAGES

Your second website

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Personal vs. professional

Best practices for using Facebook for a brand are different than using it personally.

Rock star tip: Use Facebook as your page at work

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Why Facebook pages

• Facebook Pages help businesses, organizations and

brands share their stories and connect with people.

• A page makes your brand:

• Discoverable

• Connected

• Timely

• Insightful

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Recommended settings to

maximize engagement

• Posting ability• Anyone can post to my timeline;

anyone can add photos or videos to my timeline

• Tagging ability• Other people can tag photos

posted on my page

Rock star tip: Tag followers, relevant pages and locations whenever possible to boost engagement

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Dealing with negativity

• Determine standards for acceptable behavior before there is an incident. (Student Code of Conduct)

• Unless the negative content violates your standards, don’t delete it.

• If it does violate your standards, take a screen shot and then remove it.

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New features and trends

• Call to action buttons

• Insights in Facebook events

• Prioritization of hard news sources

• Prioritization of video; video auto play

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Facebook rock star checklist

More than one full-time faculty/staff member is an admin on the page

The page has a friendly url

The about section concisely describes the unit

Branding is consistent with the unit’s website and other social media

Contact information is listed

Page tabs have been reviewed and selected

Settings have been reviewed and updated as needed

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FACEBOOK EVENTS

Going, maybe, no

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Why use Facebook events?

• Provides all relevant information about your activity in an organized, easy-to-find place.

• Offers a place to focus conversation around your activity or event.

• Allows you to involve your current list of followers.

• Provides opportunities for collaboration.

• Acts as a repository for information about your activity after it occurs.

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Best practices for events

• Include all information:• Date, time, location, ticketing link, details

• Include a compelling photo

• Invite key stakeholders or event ambassadors to attend

• Invite other pages to co-host when applicable

• Regularly share event updates to help build the conversation.

#BirthdayBears

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THE ART AND SCIENCE OF

FACEBOOK’S ALGORITHM

Cracking the code

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Science behind EdgeRank

• “The goal of News Feed is to deliver the right content to the right people at the right time so they don’t miss the stories that are important to them. Ideally, we want News Feed to show all the posts people want to see in the order they want to read them.”

• Facebook’s algorithm was built to prioritize newsfeed content by:• Affinity

• Weight

• Time Decay

Sources: Facebook; Facebooknewsfeedalgorithm.com

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Science behind EdgeRank

Source: singlegrain.com

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The art to boosting your

EdgeRank

• Show interesting content!

• Share a variety of content and watch to see what your followers engage with the most.

• Tag relevant pages and followers in posts when possible

• Craft posts that encourage interaction (clicking, commenting and sharing)

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…and know your power post

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Your turn

1. Think of an news story, event or activity with which you want your followers to engage.

1. Draft a post that capitalizes on a strategy you learned about Edgerank.

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FACEBOOK INSIGHTS

Facts and figures

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Measurement

• Provides demographic information on your audience

• Shows you what content is most popular on your page

• Lets you observe overall trends• Likes

• Reach

• Engagement

• Referrers

• Allows you to export data

MarooNation Insights

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What to track

• Growth

• Reach

• Engagement

• Most popular post(s)

MarooNation stats

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QUESTIONS

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